Singular Elliptic Problems

Bifurcation & Asymptotic Analysis

Marius Ghergu and Vicentiu Radulescu

Description

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the mathematical theory of nonlinear problems described by singular elliptic equations. There are carefully analyzed logistic type equations with boundary blow-up solutions and generalized Lane-Emden-Fowler equations or Gierer-Meinhardt systems with singular nonlinearity in anisotropic media. These nonlinear problems appear as mathematical models in various branches of Physics, Mechanics, Genetics, Economics, Engineering, and they are also relevant in Quantum Physics and Differential Geometry.

One of the main purposes of this volume is to deduce decay rates for general classes of solutions in terms of estimates of particular problems. Much of the material included in this volume is devoted to the
asymptotic analysis of solutions and to the qualitative study of related bifurcation problems. Numerical approximations illustrate many abstract results of this volume. A systematic description of the most relevant singular phenomena described in these lecture notes includes existence (or nonexistence) of solutions, unicity or multiplicity properties, bifurcation and asymptotic analysis, and optimal regularity.

The method of presentation should appeal to readers with different backgrounds in functional analysis and nonlinear partial differential equations. All chapters include detailed heuristic arguments providing thorough motivation of the study developed later on in the text, in relationship with concrete processes arising in applied sciences. The book includes an extensive
bibliography and a rich index, thus allowing for quick orientation among the vast collection of literature on the mathematical theory of nonlinear singular phenomena

Singular Elliptic Problems

Bifurcation & Asymptotic Analysis

Marius Ghergu and Vicentiu Radulescu

Author Information

Marius Ghergu is Researcher at the Institute of Mathematics "Simion Stoilow" of the Romanian Academy. Vicentiu Radulescu is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Mathematics "Simion Stoilow" of the Romanian Academy and Full Professor at the University of Craiova.